Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wive \Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wived}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wiving}.] [AS. w[=i]fian, gew[=i]fian. See {Wite}.]
To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wive \Wive\, v. t.
1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. ``An I could
get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and
wived.'' --Shak.
2. To take for a wife; to marry.
I have wived his sister. --Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wive
v 1: take (someone) as a wife
2: marry a woman, take a wife
3: provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
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